Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brand-new vicar of Gidleigh, Devonshire, 65-year-old former Navy Captain John Mortimer Scott, feels that he is well prepared for his career. "I often think people who go straight through the university and into the church haven't seen enough of the world. I found in the navy that a commanding officer is a sort of welfare officer, and once men trust you they will ask you for advice on all sorts of problems...
Tass scornfully advised Soviet city dwellers, who often live three and four or more to a room, that nothing so luxurious could possibly be "typical" or, for that matter, be bought for a mere $13,000. Then Tass's editors showed what they really thought of the splitnik: "There is no more truth in showing this as the typical home of the American worker than, say, in showing the Taj Mahal as the typical home of a Bombay textile worker or Buckingham Palace as the typical home of the English miner." Furthermore, added Tass, with its mind on what...
...Then, a pool of speculators would buy enough stock to send it scooting up, stir up public interest so that they could unload at the top. Today, pools are not only illegal; stock ownership is so much broader that a pool could hardly operate. Now, stocks are often moved up by the tools of publicity...
Corporations happily supply information to security analysts and customers' men, whose firms turn out some 50,000 market letters annually. Public-relations firms are hired to plug a firm to the public. Their performances are often judged on how high the publicity pushes the stock...
...concern, as voiced in its ads, is all to the good. But the Street and the corporations it serves can do a great deal more to curb uninformed speculation by their own efforts, instead of wagging a finger at the public. When irresponsible rumors boom a stock, company officials often keep quiet rather than making the prompt denials that would cool it off. Many a stock has been run up on wild rumors when there is so little stock available that any buying or selling sends it rollercoasting. The exchange has the power to suspend trading when the floating supply...